Ohsusannah

 I attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland in St. Mary’s City, MD, and graduated in 1987 with a BA in art.  I was a member of a gallery in the area for a short time after graduation, but family situations, i.e. becoming a mom, made it impossible for me to continue being involved in the gallery, and in art in general.  I started work painting, photography and multimedia in the early 2000s and since about 2008 have been working consistently.  I have been involved in ArtFest exhibits, exhibits in galleries in New York City, Raleigh, N.C., Norfolk, Virginia and various regional and online art exhibitions. I have also taken workshops to hone my skills in recent years.

 

  I experiment with art to fulfill something that cannot be expressed in any other way.  I seek to express the intangible through tangible means.  I want to engage the viewer in my work. Light, dark, value contrasts, and color all evoke a response of some kind.  My goal is to continue to grow, experiment, and exist as a painter/artist and to share that experience with others. Inspiration comes from the natural world, which I believe was created by God.  The wind in pine trees, the merging tones and colors of woods, fields, and marshes, the flight of a bird, and the shifting shape and colors of clouds all speak to this belief.

 

I have been interested in art from a very young age.  I was raised in Southern Maryland in rural St. Mary's County.  Nature and living things have always inspired me. I live and raised my family in the same town where I grew up.  I continue to be inspired by the rural surroundings, and the sweet light that exists between two rivers.